As you visit your schools, you should "be a sponge" and learn as much about the students, teacher and school as your can. Each week, we will ask you to pay attention to one characteristic of your classes to observe and reflect upon.
By observation, we mean that we would like to write a paragraph or two describing what you saw (or discussed with your CT) that answers the questions we provide.
At the start of the year, Miss Thyne hands out a syllabus for the class. This syllabus contains all of her classroom policies. She lays out the course and what they will be learning, and tells them what she expects out of them. Miss Thyne has all of the typical requirements, such as coming to class ready with a pencil, binder and text book. She goes on to discuss her office hours and grading. Her late work policy and other similar policies follow those as listed in the student handbook for the entire school. She also has a section for class behavior policies. This is slightly different than I have seen prior. There are three bullets with "Come prepared", "participate", and "have a positive attitude" respectively. She explains that behavior comes down to two things,common sense and common courtesy.
I was not able to see how she started the class out and how she established classroom norms, but I did see that the students seemed to like her. She did not yell at the students when I was there. They seemed to obey her commands. She also doesn't point students out that get into trouble. She tries to direct their attension to the task at hand, and writes them up for the dean of students to handle the student's behavior and take appropriate action.
By reflection, we mean that we would like you to write a paragraph or two that interprets your observations, and evaluates them based on either what you intend to do when you have your own class our in light of what we are reading and talking about in class.
Based on what I have seen, I feel that Miss Thyne doesn't have a good happy medium for strict and laid back. She tries to have fun with them and be the "friend", but they often get out of controll. When she finally directs them to quiet down, they do. It is my assumption that she didn't set a boundry at the begining. On the other hand, Miss Thyne does not seem bothered by it. She does not repeatedly raise her voice to try and get them to settle down. She allows them to go wild, then eventually brings them back to work. I feel that they do listen because she has no problem writting them up without warning. Other than that, I saw that students did come prepared, participate and have a possitive attitude. They understood the classroom polices and abided by them. When the students get too loud and off topic, they are not going against classroom policies, because Miss Thyne clearly doesn't make that a policy.
- By observation, we mean that we would like to write a paragraph or two describing what you saw (or discussed with your CT) that answers the questions we provide.
At the start of the year, Miss Thyne hands out a syllabus for the class. This syllabus contains all of her classroom policies. She lays out the course and what they will be learning, and tells them what she expects out of them. Miss Thyne has all of the typical requirements, such as coming to class ready with a pencil, binder and text book. She goes on to discuss her office hours and grading. Her late work policy and other similar policies follow those as listed in the student handbook for the entire school. She also has a section for class behavior policies. This is slightly different than I have seen prior. There are three bullets with "Come prepared", "participate", and "have a positive attitude" respectively. She explains that behavior comes down to two things,common sense and common courtesy.I was not able to see how she started the class out and how she established classroom norms, but I did see that the students seemed to like her. She did not yell at the students when I was there. They seemed to obey her commands. She also doesn't point students out that get into trouble. She tries to direct their attension to the task at hand, and writes them up for the dean of students to handle the student's behavior and take appropriate action.
- By reflection, we mean that we would like you to write a paragraph or two that interprets your observations, and evaluates them based on either what you intend to do when you have your own class our in light of what we are reading and talking about in class.
Based on what I have seen, I feel that Miss Thyne doesn't have a good happy medium for strict and laid back. She tries to have fun with them and be the "friend", but they often get out of controll. When she finally directs them to quiet down, they do. It is my assumption that she didn't set a boundry at the begining. On the other hand, Miss Thyne does not seem bothered by it. She does not repeatedly raise her voice to try and get them to settle down. She allows them to go wild, then eventually brings them back to work. I feel that they do listen because she has no problem writting them up without warning. Other than that, I saw that students did come prepared, participate and have a possitive attitude. They understood the classroom polices and abided by them. When the students get too loud and off topic, they are not going against classroom policies, because Miss Thyne clearly doesn't make that a policy.